18059. LAURA POLK'S THEORY OF RESILIENCE. This paper discusses how principals can use data to improve teaching and learning in their schools. Topics include the need for change in the national/state assessment test system (in order to make the resultant data more useful), the importance of principals using the classroom assessments of teachers, and the use of computers and a "Just-in-Time" approach in order to have necessary data "embedded" into everyday tasks. KEYWORDS: education principals data assessment testing. Written 2006. MLA Style. 5 pages, 10 footnotes, 5 bibliographic sources. 1,302 words.